Pentagon Asked to Prepare Housing for Up to 20,000 Migrant Children

[jayschool2013]

Source: NY Times

WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday asked the Pentagon to make preparations to house as many as 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children on American military bases, a United States official said.

New, makeshift detention facilities are being envisioned to house thousands of immigrant families that are crossing illegally into the United States following President Trump’s executive order on Wednesday, which called for detaining parents and children together instead of separating them.

The request comes as federal agencies on Thursday offered competing and contradictory explanations of what was happening to immigrant families in the hours after Mr. Trump’s order, leaving it unclear where families were being held and whether they were being prosecuted.

Speaking on the Senate floor, Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, questioned how such a plan to house 20,000 children could work. “Is it even feasible?” he asked.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/us/politics/trump-immigration-border-family-separation.html

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Oy.

[sandensea]

1. No outrage from Alex Jones, I take it.

[Matthew28]

2. We're becoming like nazi germany

Trump is a monster.

[sandensea]

11. And what's worse, he does it because his deplorables love the idea.

It's one thing to have a monster as head of state, as a kind of temporary fluke.

It's another thing altogether to have said monster have 30-40% of the population behind him, egging him on to be more and more extreme.

[Igel]

19. Or like present-day

Germany and Greece and Lebanon and even Gaza.

Refugee camps; call them refugees, and "refugee camp" isn't far from what's put on the ground.

[muntrv]

3. Pentagon preparing Trumpvilles for 20,000 migrant children.

[awesomerwb1]

4. There is a big deportation push coming imo.

This was just the beginning.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. These are to be long term Detention Camps.

Do not be fooled. Our Government did this in 1942,wake the F up people. When you bring any Military people into people situations,nothing good can happen. Need Evidence,look no further that Iraq,Afghanistan,Jordan,Turkey,and of Course Palestine. Military operations are linear in nature and they know only how to run Prison Camps.

[sandensea]

12. +1

And what's worse, one in three of our fellow Americans dig the idea - as long as they aren't caught in the dragnet themselves.

Freedom for me; but not for thee.

[Wellstone ruled]

14. Because they never had to endure or had family that endured

anything associated with Interment Camps. There is a few of us who had first hand knowledge of or had family members touched by this. I know,that was 75 years ago or for the Vietnamese ant Thialanders,forty years ago.

So,it appears our Media does not want to remind our country just how ugly it can get. I guess it does not sell soap.

[sarcasmo]

17. 800 per day, per person x 20,000. Always follow the money.

[Wellstone ruled]

18. Your just nailed the real motive to the wall my friend.

[sarcasmo]

20. The total equals 15.5 million. I adjusted for the correct amount $775 x 20,000.

[modrepub]

22. You Can't Follow The Money

Because the Defense Department is the only federal agency that isn't required to follow general accounting principles. They don't have to account for any money so you'll never be able to track what's being spent. You criticize military practices and the right-wing will accuse you of (insert cliche here). I always have that Billy Joel verse in my mind when I hear someone shouting down anyone who questions our military (They threw an American Flag in our face...).

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

6. Posse Comitatus issues here?

... looking for answers. Thank you.

[Tribalceltic]

13. That was my first thought

[trusty elf]

16. Fondling Father will grab them by the posse.

I'm not sure, but didn't the Posse Comitatus Act get neutered during the Shrubya years with the "Patriot" Act?

[iluvtennis]

7. OMG. This is disgusting. Military is becoming the immigration mgmt force - first the JAGs

and now housing. SMDH and rolling my eyes.

[msongs]

8. your military will not save you. nt

[hibbing]

9. I go to lunch come back and of course it gets worse

I don't know what to do.


Peace

[cstanleytech]

10. Free waterboarding rides included at no extra cost.

[lark]

15. 20,000!

Are they going to start kidnapping brown babies/children already living in the US to put them there? Sure sounds that way, unless they plan indefinite detention forever for the parents and children and not even resolving any of the cases? With these evil cruel assholes, there is no lower limit to what they would do to hurt brown/black peoople. How long before they start in on the rest of us, jailing us and our children for failure to worship Herr Furor????

[pansypoo53219]

21. so, he grandfathered the kidnapping already done?